5941From Thomas Jefferson to James Brown, 27 September 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I was in hopes, when you were in this neighborhood, I should have had the pleasure of seeing you. Besides the gratification as a friend, I was anxious to settle our account. I gave to Mr. Donald the only list of the tobacco sold him which I possessed, and tho I had left directions to procure me another from the Lynchburg warehouse, it has not yet been done. From a general recollection of the...
5942From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 5 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I was in hopes to have seen you here till Mr. Randolph arriving last night from Richmond, informed me Mrs. Eppes was unwell. I hope it has not been serious and that this will find her in that good health I wish her ever to enjoy. I set out four days hence with Polly for Philadelphia. I am following your example in taking measures to clear myself of Hanson at once as far as bonds will do it....
5943From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Lewis, 5 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with a great deal of pain that I have found myself under a necessity of having suits brought against two persons so nearly connected with yourself and Mrs. Lewis as your son Robert and Capt. S. Woodson. You know that I was left burthened with a great debt for Mr. Wayles’s estate, and in scuffling to pay what I could of that, I suffered my own accounts to accumulate. My attornies found it...
5944From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Lewis, Jr., 5 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
My principal object with respect to Elkhill being to sell it, I do not propose to subject it to any lease which might disappoint me of a purchaser. If you think proper to continue the occupation as lessee at will as you have heretofore done and on the same terms, I consent to it. But I shall expect the rent of the year to be paid with the produce of the year, and think it but fair to observe...
5945From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Skipwith, 5 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favoured with yours of Sep. 4. which comes to me here. In the suit you mention to be brought by Bevins’s exr. against you and myself, the order of the names is not even an irregularity. The omission of Mr. and Mrs. Eppes is more material, and if he will not amend his writ by consent, we ought to oblige him to do it by plea. I will beg the favor of you to have my appearance entered with...
5946From Thomas Jefferson to David Meade Randolph, 6 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The office of Marshal for the district of Virginia being now to be newly filled, on the appointment of Colo. Carrington to the department of the Excise, I take the liberty of asking whether it would be acceptable to you. If you authorize me to say so to the President, the appointment will be given to you. It’s duties are as yet scarcely sketched out, by the federal legislature. By turning to...
5947From Thomas Jefferson to Tubeuf, 6 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your favor of Sep. 11. and should have been much pleased to recieve you personally, had the cares with which you are charged permitted it. I congratulate my own country on the acquisition of so many good people from yours; and sincerely wish that in your particular case the advantages may be reciprocal. I have seen enough to be always in fear that strangers may not find their...
5948From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker, 6 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
When last in Virginia I wrote pressingly to Mr. Lyle to have my father’s estate’s account copied from the books of Kippen & co. from his death to the commencement of the account he had furnished Mr. Nicholas. On my arrival here now, I wrote to him for the account in hopes it was ready. I just now recieve his answer in these words. ‘Manchester Sep. 28. 1791. Dear Sir, I am favored this morning...
5949From Thomas Jefferson to James Wilson, 6 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Colo. Nicholas Lewis has communicated to me the account you inclosed him of your transactions in my affairs and I am happy to find them drawn so near to a close. There appear to me two corrections however to be made in the account. The first respects the article of £9–5–7 which had been charged in the account of Richardson & Scruggs’s bonds which you had rendered before in these words ‘1786...
5950From Thomas Jefferson to John Bolling, 7 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I should have been extremely gratified could my stay in Virginia have permitted me to have paid you a visit in Chesterfeild, and it would have been some compensation for the want of that power, had my sister’s visit to this place happened to fall in with mine. In the ensuing spring I think it possible that business may call me into your neighborhood, in which case I shall most assuredly have...
5951From Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Donald, 7 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
When I left Virginia the last year, I left with Colo. Nicholas Lewis instructions to pay you for Wm. & James Donald & co. £27– 3–9 with interest from Apr. 19. 1791. out of some money due to me on bond and for rents from Robert Lewis and Samuel Woodson, of which they had promised prompt payment. They paid not a shilling which prevented Colo. Lewis from doing as I had desired. I have put my...
5952From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 7 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
In your letter of Oct. 23. 1790. you informed me there was a balance due to Kippen & co. from my mother of £126–9–5. currency before the beginning of the war. This letter having been delivered me just as I was setting out for Philadelphia I informed you I could give no answer to it till I should come here this present fall. I have now had time to examine papers on that subject and find no...
5953From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Pope, 7 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Colo. Nicholas Lewis having declined the care of my affairs, I have been obliged so to arrange them as that much more attention to them falls on myself, and particularly as to the direction of the collection and payment of my debts: and as my occupations at Philadelphia permit me to come here but once a year, I am obliged while here to take arrangements for the year following. It is for this...
5954From Thomas Jefferson to James Strange, 7 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my return to this place I have examined my papers relative to the demands stated in your letter of July 10. I find nothing against those of £16–11–3 due from my mother to Donald Scott & co. at their Charlottesville store, and £19–6–5¼ from myself to the same company on dealings with Buchanan and McDowell, which therefore I will undertake to pay with interest from the 19th. of April...
5955From Thomas Jefferson to the Rev. Matthew Maury, 10 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Finding that the amount of the account (£22–13) which you left with me is such as that I can pay it in Philadelphia, and that this will be more speedy than any resource I can refer it to here, I have determined to remit it from thence. This I can do by sending a bank post bill to your brother at Fredericksburg, at which place it shall be by the last day of this month. The collector of the port...
5956From Thomas Jefferson to John Garland Jefferson, 11 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
A little before my departure from Philadelphia I received your letter expressing a wish to remove into this neighborhood that you might be convenient to the books which are to be read. I am told your present situation is favorable for study; and I doubt whether in this neighborhood your mind would not be more disturbed and withdrawn from it by a revival of matters which if let alone, will sink...
5957From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Lewis, 11 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I omitted to mention in my memorandum about the sale that if any ready money should be recieved, about £70. of it should be paid to Dr. Currie, and the residue, as far as £300. to Dobson. It is not probable so much will be received, if any, therefore it would be useless to say that any further sum should be paid to Hanson. Mr. Tom Cobbs applied to me to-day about 2. hhds. of tobo. carried down...
5958From Thomas Jefferson to Anderson Bryan, 12 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The constant absence from the […] I am now held, requires that I should [unburden?] myself from all […] and particularly from all [‥] other responsibilities of that mat[ter?] Therefore on Thursday […], [‥] [re]lease me from my securityship […] of which I thought it right to […] that you may [be?] there to [defend?], [‥] necessary [for your interests], […] and [‥]. I am Your PrC ( DLC ); badly...
5959From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 18 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Giles carries your trunk to Baltimore where he will see you tonight. Take out of it whatever you may want before you get to Philadelphia and leave the trunk with Mr. Grant and I will call on him for it. The weather is so bad that perhaps I may not be able to overtake you in the morning as I had hoped: but I shall if possible. Adieu my dear Maria. Yours affectionately, RC ( ViU );...
5960From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 23 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honour to subjoin the alteration he suggested in the last paragraph of the President’s speech. Having read Colo. Humphreys’ letters after Mr. Short’s he had been led into an erroneous arrangement of the facts they state. Colo. Humphreys’ letter mentioning the king’s refusal of the constitution is of Aug. 22. while it appears by Mr. Short’s letter of Aug. 30. that it had...
5961Report on Census, 24 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
SCHEDULE of the whole number of Persons within the several Districts of the United States, taken according to “An Act providing for the Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States;” passed March the 1 st , 1790. districts. Free white Males of
5962From Thomas Jefferson to James Brown, 25 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved by Mr. Randolph the sum you were so kind as to send by him, which I presume to have been 50. dollars not having weighed it, and I have now the pleasure to return you that sum in a bank post-bill. I left directions that as soon as our wheat shall be sold, the sum of fifty pounds Virginia currency be paid to you on account. I am with great esteem Dear Sir Your most obedt. humble...
5963From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. P. Derieux, 25 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to inclose you a letter which I found on my arrival here. I find one also of July 8. from Mr. Fenwick our Consul at Bordeaux in which is the following passage. ‘Mr. Le Roy has been absent all this summer from Bordeaux. He is now in Paris and expected to return in course of a month or two. Immediately on his arrival I will wait on him in person with the letter you covered...
5964From Thomas Jefferson to the Rev. Matthew Maury, 25 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the satisfaction to inclose you a bank post-bill for seventy five dollars and a half as I informed you I would in my letter from Monticello. I inclose this letter to you open, under cover to your brother at Fredericksburg, that he may get at the bill, recieve the money from the nearest collector of the U.S. and dispose of it according to such directions as you shall in the meantime...
5965From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 25 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The first part of our journey was pleasant, except some hair-breadth escapes which our new horse occasioned us in going down hills the first day or two, after which he behaved better, and came through the journey preserving the fierceness of his spirit to the last. I believe he will make me a valuable horse. Mrs. Washington took possession of Maria at Vernon and only restored her to me here....
5966From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 26 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson has the honor of presenting his compliments to Mr. Hammond, of expressing his regrets that he happened to be from home when Mr. Hammond did him the honor of calling on him, and was equally unlucky in not finding him at home when he waited on him on Monday. Being informed by Mr. Bond that Mr. Hammond is charged with a public mission to the government of the United States, relative...
5967The President to the House of Representatives, 26 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved from the Governor of North Carolina a copy of an act of the General assembly of that state authorizing him to convey to the U.S. the right and jurisdiction of the sd. state over one acre of land in Occacock island and ten acres on the Cape island within the sd. state, for the purpose of erecting lighthouses thereon, together with the deed of the Governor in pursuance thereof,...
5968From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 6 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letter to you was of the 24th. of August. A gentleman going from hence to Cadiz will be the bearer of this, and of the newspapers to the present date, and will take care that the letter be got safe to you if the papers cannot. Mr. Mangnal, at length tired out with his useless sollicitations at this office, to obtain redress from the court of Spain for the loss of the Dover Cutter, has...
5969From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 6 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last night yours of Oct. 31. complaining that you had written three letters before that, to me, which remained unanswered. Be assured my dear Sir that in the last seven months, I had received but your letter of Sep. 2 . This I answered from Monticello Octob. 6. and I hope is come to hand before this. I therein asked the favor of you to inform me of the nature and amount of the...
5970From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mifflin, 6 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your favor of yesterday on the subject of the laws of the U.S. furnished to you from my office. I would with pleasure add a third copy, but that, your Excellency will percieve, on turning to the act of Congress which establishes my department, that that has fixed the number of copies of the laws to be furnished by me to the Executives of the states, and of course that the...